Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-08-26
THE SPIRIT OF OPPRESSION RE-
PUDIATED.

OF beng the best edited county paper
in the state, in reply to an interroga-
tory of ours asserts that it answer an
emphatic YES to being in favor Of the
co-education of white children with
Chinese children. To sustain its pos
ition. it points to the fact that Chinese
children are attending the public school
at Silverton, aud that there is no OBJ
lection That proves nothing We
presume there may be three or four
Chinese children there, but equally
divide the population of the state of
Oregon into two different races, and
then see If the best interests of both
races would not be conserved by keep
ing them separate in our public schools |
and preserving both races in the purity
of an unmixed blood.
The whole truth of the matter in a
nutshelli is that the northern republican
press have taken an untenable position
IN criticising the action of the Georgia
legislature in this matter. The Negro
has been deprived of no rights his ed
ucation will be attended to, the state
funds will be distributed pro rata be
tween the colored and the white schools,
and everything is lovely, but the peo-
pie Of Georgia, by the vote of their
legislativeassembly almost unanimously
oppose the co.education Of the races.
And the good people of Silverton and
the editor of the Statesman himself
would replace that emphatic YES with a
laundering no! if the Chinese children
were equal in number to the whites,
AS southern paper justly puts it.
"We say that schools i'll which the
races are mixed arc contrary to the
opinion of the people of the United
States. OF course we know, in those
sections of the country where Negroes
are few, colored students are found
here and there in white schools, but we
know perfectly we'll that the very peo-
pie who would force mixed schools on
the people eff Georgia would not en-
dure such institutions among them
selves if colored children were numer-
our among them. The 'Asbury Park
Incident, the difficulty in connection
with the fourth of July in Philadelphia,
the color line in the Grand Army En-
campment, and the daily habits of the
northern people in their relations to
the Negro, sustain this opinion. In
view of the inconsistency of their
speech and their practice, We are
forced to believe that these agitators
do not care SO much for the elevation OF
the colored people as they are concerned
to humiliate the white people in the
south.
'But while we think the Glenn
bilr is in line with the public senti
ment of the entile country, we regard
it as wholly unnecessary. The teach
ers in Atlanta university cannot carry
out the purpose they have avowed
No white people are going there. They
may force their own children to sit il
class with their Negro pupils. We be
lieve some of them have had their chill
dren in attenance there. But beyont
this they can do nothing in the way O
executing their impracticable notions
about the co-education of the races. /
is doubtless disagreeable situation
for their children, but it is likely no
body will make ado about it beyond th'
children themselves"
Let the Statesman be honest will
itself and with the people. Dowl
deep in the editors heart, he mus
know that he had no interest in tn
matter, that all efforts to be indisnan
on his part are but part and parcel O
the cheap tragedy which the republi
can press feels called upon to enact il
order to fire the northern heart. Th
people'of Georgia are members Of
sovereign state of an indissoluble unio
and are as patriotic, as capable of sell
government as any in the union. The
have the experience in the matter, an
are practically unanimous upon thi
point; and any criticism upon ther
from Oregon comes with as ill grace a
the criticisms from the eastern state
upon the Pacific coast dealing with th
Chinese.
But this whole idea Of the StatesDsd
comes from that opinion imbibed b
the republican press that springs frol
every selfish passion in the huma
heart, namely, that the people of til
south have been conquered" An
the Oregon SJtinJs, not so polite
its speech, perhaps, as Others, blul
dered upon the truth and stated it wit
6luntness, when in its last issue it. ..sai'
'FThe people of the south should than
God they live" The Statesman hid'
the same meaning in its editorial, an
i. is this "conquering," ''selfsh, spir
that was repudiated by the people
1884, and will be again buried in lSS
It is the same mean, inhuman spin
that is the heart and soul of Engli'
Toryism and is the bottom of Irish o
preston.
Thank God, that spirit will never
assembled again on American SOIL II
people realize that the war was foug
topreserve an indissolIble union of i
destructible states, and not to NAL
provinces. The great spirit of Gra
realized this fact in the prayer, 81
there he neacer and the HOMAGE pa